WASHINGTON TWP. — A woman was fatally stabbed Thursday evening in what is believed to be a domestic violence incident at a home in an apartment on Fries Mill Road in the Birches section of Washington Township, in Gloucester County.The woman, Kim Barnum, 42, was pronounced dead at Kennedy Memorial Hospital, Washington Township.

She lived alone in a Birches home, where she was fatally wounded. A boyfriend, with whom she had a history of domestic violence, is being sought as a suspect in the stabbing.

It is believed he left Barnum's home in a vehicle driven by his mother, who intended to take him to police.

The man jumped out of the vehicle when it slowed down in Monroe Township, where a search is being conducted.